Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed (1ST ed.) Hugo Award for Best Novella (2021) Number of Pages: 197

Number of Pages: 197

Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal

a girl whose talent might be the undoing of them all

a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village

Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed (1ST ed.) Hugo Award for Best Novella (2021) Number of Pages: 197Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and our circumstances in life, we ask for guidance constantly. And this has been true since our nation's earliest days: from the colonial era on, there have always been people eager to step up and offer advice, some of it lousy, some of it thoughtful, but all of it read